Improvement in cosmetic-bottles



MARY H. HUNTINGTON.

Cosmetic Bottles.

No. 143,627. Patented0ct.14,l873.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARY H, HUNTINGTON, OF WATERTOWN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN COSMETIC-BOTTLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 143,627, dated October14, 1873; application filed September 27, 1873.

My invention consists of a cup on the top of the bottle or on thestopper, so arranged that some of the contents of the bottle will flowinto it when the bottle is laid on one side, and. be held convenientlyto be taken up by a sponge, brush, or other article for use, and theremainder willflow back into the bottle again when it is placed upright.The object is to avoid the use of a separate cup and the waste attendingit, as in the present mode of using cos metics, which is necessitatedfor want of a better way.

Figure l is a front elevation of a bottle with a cup attached to thestopper. tional elevation taken on the line or x of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is asectional elevation of a bottle with the cup formed on the top of it,the bottle being laid on the side as when the cup is to be used.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts.

A is the bottle, and B the cup. Said cup is Fig.2 is a secformed on theside of either the stopper 0, as in Figs. 1 and 2, or the bottle itself,as in Fig. 3, and it has a passage, D,- through its lower side,communicating with the interior of the bottle either through the neck ofthe bottle or the stopper, so that when the bottle is laid down on itsside, with the cup upright, the liquid in the bottle, or a portion ofit, will flow into the cup, where a sponge, brush, or other article tobe used for applying it, can be readily put into the cup to get it, andwhat is not used will run back into the bottle without waste. A smallstopper, E, will be fitted in the passage D to keep it closed, exceptwhen the liquid is to be used.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent The combination of a cup, B, with a bottle or itsstopper, having connection with the bottle, so as to receive and holdsome of the contents of the bottle when the latter is placed on itsside, and to return it to the bottle again when placed upright,substantially as specified.

MARY H. HUNTING-TON.

Witnesses:

A. P. THAYER, '1. B. MOSHER.

